It’s been a bumper week for progress in Open RAN: a 280-million customer mobile operating group (that’s as big as Vodafone) commits to Open RAN, technical breakthroughs – and more vendor selections. Dish announced Dell as its provider for edge compute infrastructure. (Last week, Dell was identified as a market leader for DC and Edge Compute in Open RAN projects in an Appledore report.) Speaking of Dell, they scored another major Open RAN project with Vodafone UK, who plan to deploy open RAN at 2,500 sites in the UK. Dell is making a major play in telecom and has already established itself as a top 5 vendor across all Open RAN projects. Speaking of Vodafone, they announced the other key partners on their ambitious Open RAN rollout – alongside Dell are NEC, Samsung, WindRiver, CapGemini Engineering (Altran) and Keysight Technologies. New radio kit will have Evenstar specs – that’s the work by the Telecom Infra Project to build a general-purpose RAN reference architecture for 4G and 5G. Evenstar already has vendor partners including Altiostar, Baicells, Mavenir, MTI, Parallel Wireless and Xilinx on board. Lab tests on Evenstar radio units are already complete, and live kit is expected in the field […]